Ripple is the first of three William Atkins ‘Gary Thomas’ cutters built in the 1990s at the Northwest School for Wooden Boatbuilding. She is cedar planking on oak frames with spars of spruce. Her suit of sails includes a main, Jib, stays’l, tops’l, yankee, and a drifter, and her auxiliary is a one-cylinder Yanmar diesel. Her longest cruise was 88 days in the summer of 2015, and she circumnavigated Vancouver Island on a 6 week voyage in the summer of 2017.
